Salad For Dinner

There was a time, the dieting times, when salad for me meant vegetables topped with a drizzle of balsamic vinegar, sometimes livened up with a grilled chicken breast.

These days our salads have become more elaborate and evolved (I'm not really sure it's evolving) into a vehicle for cheese -- our favorite flavor. Tonight's chopped melange mixed roasted potatoes, radicchio, romaine, golden pea shoots, cucumbers from the front yard, black beans, and mozzarella, parmesan, and provolone cheeses -- all dressed in a mixture of olive oil, red wine vinegar and lemon juice. Welcome salad 2011.